Father blames government 'idiots' as California town mourns killings

SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) -
With a California town grieving the
deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim's
father on Monday blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun
laws after a mass school shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut.

Richard Martinez, whose son
Christopher Michael-Martinez, 20, was gunned down on Friday night in Isla Vista, California,
said similar rampages would continue until lawmakers took action on guns.

"We're all proud to be
Americans. But what kind of message does it send to the world when we have such
a rudderless bunch of idiots in government?" Martinez said on CNN.

"I can't tell you how angry I
am. It's just awful, and no parent should have to go through this."

Elliot Rodger, 22, the son of a Hollywood director, fatally stabbed three people in his
apartment before shooting three people dead near the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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He then shot himself. All of those
killed were students at the school.

Michael-Martinez, described by his
father as articulate and tough, was shot inside a deli. He was the last in the
killing spree to die.

Martinez said his son died because Congress had failed to act after
a mentally ill gunman killed 26 people in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

"These people are getting
rich sitting in Congress. And what do they do? They don't take care of our
kids," he said.

The University
of California at Santa Barbara, which is headed into its final
exams, canceled classes on Tuesday for a day of mourning and reflection. It
scheduled a memorial service for Tuesday afternoon.

"On Tuesday we will remember
and honor the victims of this horrible event, and come together as an academic
community to reflect, talk with each other, and think about the future,"
Chancellor Henry Yang and interim Executive Vice Chancellor Joel Michaelsen
said in a statement on the school's website.

The university also has set up counseling
services and emergency housing for displaced students.

About 200 people attended a
memorial service late on Sunday at St. Mark's University Parish, pausing in
front of poster boards dedicated to three of the dead, Veronika Weiss, Katie
Cooper and Michael-Martinez.

Rodger killed two women and four
men, aged 19 to 22, and wounded 13 people, including eight whom he shot as he
sped through town in his black BMW, exchanging fire with police, authorities
said.

Minutes before opening fire,
Rodger emailed his plans to some 30 people, including his mother, father and
former teachers, said Cathleen Bloeser, whose son was a childhood friend of the
shooter and received a copy.

Rodger stated his intention to
kill his housemates, lure others to his home to continue the mayhem, slaughter
women in a sorority and bring his spree to the streets of Isla
Vista.

Family friend Simon Astaire told
Reuters that Rodger's mother, Chin, received a phone call on the night of the
shooting from his therapist alerting her to the manifesto. She called police
and her ex-husband, Peter Rodger, and the two raced to Isla
Vista, Astaire said.

Chin heard radio reports about the
shootings as she drove.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill
Brown said that Rodger was seen by a variety of healthcare professionals and it
was "very, very apparent he was severely mentally disturbed."

Brown said his department had been
in contact with Rodger three times. They included a welfare check at the
request of his family in which deputies found him to be polite and courteous
and not appearing to meet criteria for involuntarily incarceration.

Astaire said Rodger had seen
therapists off and on since he was 9.

The Los Angeles Times published
portions of Rodger's roughly 140-page manifesto in which he detailed his fear
that police would foil his plot when they visited him last month.

"I had the striking and
devastating fear that someone had somehow discovered what I was planning to do,
and reported me for it," Rodger wrote.

George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Melvin L.
Oliver was a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and a
professor at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Vernon
E. Jordan Jr. is a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).

Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.

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